Mckayla
Mckayla reached its high-water mark in 1998 at number 370, and has been recorded 13,230 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,167th. About 13,000 Mckaylas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mckayla boys named Mckayla
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,230
- Estimated living today
- 13,000
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 1998
- Best rank
- 370th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,167th
- First recorded
- 1979
- Girls / boys
- 13,225 / 5
How old the living Mckaylas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,230 babies given the name since 1979, about 13,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 4,400 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Modern variant of Michaela, influenced by Mc-.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Mckaylas
- McKayla Maroney (born 1995)American artistic gymnast
People named Mckayla with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mckayla is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mckayla is most concentrated in Utah (5.7×), Idaho (2.6×), Oregon (1.9×), North Dakota (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1998
The most popular girls’ names the year Mckayla peaked:
Mckayla elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Mckayla | 156 | 1,653rd |
| Scotland girls | Mckayla | 3 | 810th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Mckayla against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.